From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ken Pratt <ken@kenpratt.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:15:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813031503.GC5855@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1EE44425-6910-4C37-9242-54D0078FC377@adacore.com>
Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> I've always felt that keeping largish objects (say anything >1MB)
> loose makes perfect sense. These objects are accessed infrequently,
> often binary or otherwise poor candidates for the delta algorithm.
Sadly this causes huge problems with streaming a pack because the
loose object has to be inflated and then delfated again to fit into
the pack stream.
The new style loose object format was meant to fix this problem,
and it did, but the code was difficult to manage so it was backed
out of the tree.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 19:47 pack operation is thrashing my server Ken Pratt
2008-08-10 23:06 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-10 23:12 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-10 23:30 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-10 23:34 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 3:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 7:43 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 15:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 15:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-11 15:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 19:13 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 19:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-11 19:15 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-13 2:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 2:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-13 2:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 19:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 19:29 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-11 19:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-11 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-13 3:12 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 3:15 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-08-13 3:58 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 14:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-13 15:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 15:26 ` David Tweed
2008-08-13 23:54 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-08-14 9:04 ` David Tweed
2008-08-13 16:10 ` Johan Herland
2008-08-13 17:38 ` Ken Pratt
2008-08-13 17:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 14:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 15:43 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 15:50 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-13 17:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 17:19 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-14 6:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-08-14 10:04 ` Thomas Rast
2008-08-14 10:15 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-08-14 22:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-15 1:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 14:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 19:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 21:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-14 23:39 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-08-15 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-15 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-16 12:47 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-08-16 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 1:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 2:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 17:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-07 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-07 2:50 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 3:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 3:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 4:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-07 13:58 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 17:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-07 20:33 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-08 14:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-09-08 15:12 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-08 16:01 ` Jon Smirl
2008-09-07 8:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-07 7:45 ` Mike Hommey
2008-08-14 18:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-14 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-13 16:01 ` Geert Bosch
2008-08-13 17:13 ` Dana How
2008-08-13 17:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-13 12:43 ` Jakub Narebski
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